There is little we can do for the people still in Rafah.

Roads are unsafe, access limited, and most of our partners and other humanitarian agencies have been displaced.

We need a ceasefire in #Gaza now.

'We cannot rely on the goodwill of pharmaceutical companies to ensure that global health is prioritized over profiteering.'

Such a compelling case for the urgent need for a global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.

Respect international humanitarian law. Allow the safe passage of civilians and humanitarian aid.
STOP THE FIGHTING.

UN chief António Guterres Guterres urges Israel to stop Rafah offensive immediately | NHK
'The message is simple. Abide by the decisions of the International Court of Justice. We are in a world where we must make sure that international law prevails.'

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.António Guterres has condemned in strongest terms this weekend’s air strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza that hit tents sheltering displaced people, killing & injuring civilians, including many small children.

The horror and suffering must stop immediately.

Honored to address the WAN-IFRA #WNMC24 .

I shared alarm that traffic to news sites could disappear w/AI search tools that scrape & summarize journalism w/out paying.

AI developers must pay fair value to the producers of original journalism used to train their products.

On AI Actors & journalism Maria Ressa told the #WNMC24 :
“They are killing our world and turning it upside down for profit.” Technology doesn’t care about quality, about ethics, about facts… We don’t have to swim in that ocean - we can actually recreate it.”

I condemn last night’s #Israel |i airstrikes which hit tents for displaced people in the southern #Gaza city of Rafah & have tragically led to the reported loss of more than 35 #Palestine |ian lives, incl. women & children.
Read my full statement here👇

'The UN stands firmly behind free & independent media' Melissa Fleming 🇺🇳 says. Says reporting on Gaza is increasingly 'impossible for international correspondents, and deadly for local reporters.' She adds much of what we know is based on 'heroic efforts of Palestinian journalists'

Inspiring #WNMC24 talk by ⁦Wahida Faizi⁩ - once a leading journalist in Afghanistan then, under Taliban threat, Denmark offered her asylum & ⁦Politiken⁩ gave her a reporting job. She also supports Afghan women journalists who remain & still manage to do their jobs.

Appointed to a senior United Nations position at 26 years old, Jayathma Wickramanayake's career trajectory speaks to the power of education.

Now with United Nations_Women, she’s empowering women & girls to fulfill their potential – whatever their background.

Her story on Awake At Night: bit.ly/44TZHwQ

The people of Kharkiv are enduring a particularly hard day, which comes on top of 2 weeks of daily attacks that killed, injured & devastated the lives of thousands of civilians.

Russian forces launched several deadly strikes on the city today alone.

Civilians are #NotATarget .

The International Court of Justice CIJ_ICJ issued new provisional measures that order Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah in southern Gaza and to open the governate’s border crossing for urgent aid deliveries.
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When e-cigarettes are designed to look like school supplies or taste like candy, it’s obvious that the tobacco industry is directly targeting young people.

It’s time to step in and put an end to these manipulative tactics: bit.ly/3yeDtt0

#TobaccoExposed

#BREAKING

UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution designating 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, to be observed annually

Voting result
In favour: 84
Against: 19
Abstain: 68

Reports from El Fasher in Sudan are terrible: deadly attacks on civilians, horrifying accounts of ethnic targeting, people too fearful of checkpoints to even flee!

Deliberate violence on civilians must stop. Their right to seek safety must be respected. Ceasefire is needed now!

75% of the population of Gaza is displaced, many up to 4 or 5 times.

Nowhere is safe in Gaza.

For thousands of families there is nowhere left to go: Israeli military operations & bombardments pose a continuous threat, homes have been turned to rubble.
via UNRWA

From Gaza to Sudan, Myanmar, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere, the world is witnessing a widespread failure to safeguard civilians during armed conflicts.

Wars have rules that all parties to conflict must respect.

Civilians are #NotATarget .

Announcement 🔊
 
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed today Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the Netherlands as his new Special Coordinator for #Lebanon .

Jeanine Hennis

'We would need to invent brand new words to adequately describe the situation that Palestinians in Gaza find themselves in today. No matter where you look, no matter where you go, there’s destruction, there’s devastation, there’s loss...There’s pain.'
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